By The Numbers: Anatoliy Malykhin

It took Anatoliy Malykhin less than two years to reach the One Championship summit in two weight classes. Life could not be much better for the hulking 5-foot-11 Russian.

Malykhin, his record now a pristine 11-0, will enter his 2023 campaign as the undisputed ONE light heavyweight champion and the interim ONE heavyweight titleholder. He last appeared at ONE on Prime Video 5, where he bludgeoned the unbeaten Reinier de Ridder with punches and laid claim to the light heavyweight crown with a first-round technical knockout on Dec. 2. So thorough was the rout that it was named Sherdog’s “Beatdown of the Year” for 2022.

As Malykhin awaits word on his next assignment from One Championship matchmakers, a look at some of the numbers that have accompanied him to this point:

34: Years of age for Malykhin, who was born on Jan. 11, 1988 in Kemerovo, Russia—a city of a little more than half a million people situated nearly 2,200 miles east of Moscow.

8: Malykhin victories by knockout or technical knockout, accounting for 73% of his career total (11). His list of victims includes de Ridder, Amir Aliakbari and Alexei Kudin. Malykhin owns three other victories by submission (27%).

3: Men other than Malykhin who have held the undisputed ONE lightweight championship. They are de Ridder, Aung La N Sang and Roger Gracie. Sang enjoyed the longest reign of the three at 1,161 days.

82: Seconds needed for Malykhin to put away Magomedbag Agaev with a keylock at Fight Nights Global 91 on Dec. 27, 2018. More than four years later, it remains his fastest finish to date.

96: Combined victories between the seven opponents—Kudin, Agaev, Lucas Alsina, Jake Heun, Michal Wlazlo, Reza Torabi and Ilya Gunenko—Malykhin has defeated outside of One Championship. They sport a cumulative .596 winning percentage at 96-65-1.

2: Appearances in which Malykhin has been pushed beyond one round. He put away Kudin with punches 3:32 into the second round of their Fight Nights Global 93 pairing in April 2019 and punched out Kirill Grishenko 3:42 into the second round of their ONE “Bad Blood” clash in February 2022.

5: Organizations in which Malykhin has competed as a mixed martial artist. He has gone 4-0 in One Championship, 3-0 in Golden Team Championship, 2-0 in Fight Nights Global, 1-0 in Absolute Siberian Championship and 1-0 in Simur Kerimov Promotions.

.808: Cumulative winning percentage between the four opponents—de Ridder, Aliakbari, Grishenko and Alexandre Machado—Malykhin has beaten since he joined the ONE roster. They carry a combined record of 42-10.